"The trouble with sobriety, Johnny had found, was that you remembered all the things you had to be scared of."
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→ 22 Sep 11 at 11 pm
→ 22 Sep 11 at 11 pm
Elizabeth Taylor (via alienintruder)
(Source: swankydee, via crossingtheasymptote-deactivate)
"You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way."
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
"Eating disorders are diseases of silence. We are all silently screaming for something: attention, love, help, escape or forgiveness. Although we might be looking to fill different voids, we never ask for the things we need. We feel unworthy, that for some reason we don’t deserve them. So, we play the game of guess what I need from you. Your inability to guess just feeds our feelings of worthlessness."
"There’s something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it’s painful and you’re afraid."
"There are moments when i wish i could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but i have a feeling that if i did, the joy would be gone as well. So i take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can."
♥ 3
→ 11 Sep 11 at 5 pm
→ 11 Sep 11 at 5 pm
Herbert Bayard Swope (via suck-itandsee)
(Source: asph0delus, via positivity-in-recovery)
"I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time."
♥ 102
→ 10 Sep 11 at 10 pm
→ 10 Sep 11 at 10 pm
Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness (via punk-not-junk)
(Source: spacesamidlove, via believeinrecovery)
